[TUHS] Screen editors

[Jose R. Valverde]

Talking of editors...

Once I learned Wordstar in old CP/M (before that it was mostly line
editing), and then soon, other editors that supported the Wordstar key
combinations, I got hooked on those. Joe is, to date, one of my
favorites.

On ancient UNIX, my editor of choice was 's' from Software Tools, its
main advantage being that it didn't require curses. Then we got VMS and
'eve' and that took over for a while (though I never took advantage of
all its power), mostly until I ported 's' and 'joe'.

Then came X, and when nedit was released, I was hooked on it. It has
been for decades almost the only one that could do block selection 'a
la' RAND editor.

I have been struggling to continue using it despite it lack of support
for UTF, trying various projects spun off nedit, until I recently
discovered xnedit, which is an update available on GitHub and is again
all I need, with support for UTF8, some minor UI improvements and
support for modern fonts.

Now, I still use 's' for ancient Unix emulators, 'joe' for the
command line and 'xnedit' for X.

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